RealWorld Paint 2011.1

RealWorld Paint is a lightweight, easy-to-use, freeware image/photo/animation editor. It can be used to create or edit computer images or animations, convert images to animations and back. RealWorld Paint can also be used for photo retouching.

Lean, mean and clean
RealWorld Paint installs or requires NO additional packages on your computer. No .net Framework, no adware, no spyware. It just works and on a wide range of Windows versions. RWPaint can use up to 4 cores of your modern multi-core processor to speed up drawing on a large canvas.

Modify your photographs

• With RealWorld Paint, you can resize, crop or cut out objects from photographs.
• Resize pictures (with correct gamma), convert file formats, draw custom borders or frames.
• Remove blemishes with the Clone tool.
• Crop pictures and remove perspective with the Crop tool.
• Change shapes with the Shapeshifter tool (Liquify in Photoshop's terms).

Make animations

• RealWorld Paint allows you to create simple animations like flashing buttons or animated forum avatars.
• Add new frames by dragging and dropping images from a file manager or via clipboard.
• Modify each frame as a normal layered image.
• Convert animations to filmstrips and vice versa.
• Built-in GIF optimizer without cryptic settings.

Use layers and styles

• Save time, maintain consistent look and feel, simplify future updates. That's what appropriate use of layer styles does for you.
• Use classic layer styles like bevel, shadow, fill, outline, or glow.
• Design your own layer style by combining any available image filter to achieve effects like automatic symmetry or kaleidoscope drawing.
• Save your favorite layer styles into your own personal style library (with previews). Download pre-made styles.

Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net compatibility

• You won't have to leave your old projects behind. RealWorld Paint can import and export native image files of other popular image editors. Images are imported or exported with layers.
• Photoshop's .psd files are imported with selected layer styles. Compatible layer styles are converted to RWPaint's native layer styles.
• RealWorld Paint also supports many standard image files like .jpg, .png, .bmp, .gif and more.

Give it a try!
…and you will be pleasantly surprised. While the application looks simple, you will discover it goes deeper than an average freeware image editor after using it for a while. It is fast and responsive, capable of working with large images, it supports mouse gestures, can do gamma-aware blending, Photoshop plug-ins, and that’s just the beginning. And best of all: .net framework is NOT needed and the application is easily portable.

What's new in this version:
Animated PNG support
The PNG codec is now able to read and write PNG animations. Animations and pictures are always written using 32-bit color depth. To create animated pngs instead of gifs by default, add the Animated PNG Image to your favorite formats above the GIF Image on the Formats tab of the Application options window.
Paint.net 3.5.10 compatibility
The .PDN format codec is now able to import files saved with version 3.5.10 of Paint.net. Minor bugs were fixed in export to .pdn, .xcf and .psd.

Download: RealWorld Paint 2011.1 | 8.1 MB Freeware

Download portable: RealWorld Paint 2011.1 | 8.9 MB

credit: Razvan

AIMP 3.00 Build 961 RC 2

AIMP is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp), so you'll get used to it very quickly. It can also be customized with skins.

The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization window to display rhythmic visual effects and a playlist editor to organize your audio files. A nice fading effect makes your list of songs look like an endless music loop and a handy volume normalizing feature avoids drastic volume changes between tracks. Also, the player's main functions can be conveniently controlled by global hotkeys.
Besides playing music, AIMP features three extra utilities which also enable you to record any sound on your computer, convert audio files from one format to another and view or edit tags. AIMP is based on the well-known audio engine BASS, so it's easy to connect new plug-ins (from the plug-in library included in the program) and expand the player's functionalities.

What's new in this version:
• Added localizations: Farsi
• Localizations were updated
• Sound Engine: Resampler algorithm has been improved
• Player: Player now detects full screen applications only on the current monitor
• Player: Ability to start playback of bookmark using "Enter" key
• Plugins: Radio Browser - ability to input genre manually
• Track list: Total duration of playlist now displays in "DD:HH:MM:SS" format
• Fixed: Incompatibility with AVG and Avast antivirus
• Fixed: Incompatibility with Synaptics TouchPad
• Fixed: External playlist is not reloaded when trying to open it again
• Fixed: Player doesn't receive links to the internet radio via command line
• Fixed: Player doesn't allow drop new file to the end of playlist, if "Auto merge similar categories" option is active
• Fixed: ID3v2 tag doesn't read to the end in some cases
• Fixed: "Show information about selected files" option doesn't work
• Fixed: Player doesn't work correctly with playlists in M3U8 format
• Fixed: No an ability to capture internet-radio, if station doesn't send meta-data
• Fixed: Navigation by track doesn't work for remote files
• Fixed: Audio Library doesn't detects drive letter correctly in some cases
• Fixed: Known memory leaks


Download: AIMP 3.00 Build 961 RC 2 | 6.0 MB Freeware
View: AIMP Website

 Credit: Razvan Mihai

SmoothTranscode 0.4 Beta

SmoothTranscode is a simple to use multimedia transcoder, allowing you to convert video and audio files from one format to another. It is powered by FFmpeg, which provides high quality encoding of many popular formats, as well as video post processing.

This is an early development release, which means many features may not be available yet or may not work as intended, although we do consider the software to be stable enough for general use.

What's new in SmoothTranscode 0.4 Beta:

• [NEW] .Net Framework detection added to installer
• [NEW] Full 64 bit support
• [NEW] Support for files opened through Windows Explorer
• [NEW] Addition of various bitrate settings (Same Quality, VBR and CBR)
• [NEW] Addition of frame rate setting
• [NEW] Addition of advanced options for H.264
• [UPDATED] New application icon
• [UPDATED] Refreshed user interface
• [UPDATED] Start and stop points temporarily removed due to incomplete implementation
• [UPDATED] Save file dialog now automatically chooses the extension for the selected format
• [UPDATED] Codec lists now change to show only codecs compatible with the selected container
• [UPDATED] Changed license from GPL v2 to GPL v3
• [FIXED] Format setting now works
• [FIXED] Encodes after first encode no longer fail

Download: SmoothTranscode 0.4 Beta | 10.1 MB Freeware

Credit: John Callaham